NHTSA ODI Complaints 10346012
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WHILE DRIVING ON A TRIP THE SPEEDOMETER IN MY 2003 GMC YUKON DENALI FROZE ON 72 MPH. SPEEDOMETER REMAINED STUCK ON 72 MPH FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS, STILL SHOWING 72 MPH EVEN WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS COMPLETELY STOPPED. I SHUT THE CAR OFF AND RESTARTED IT WHENEVER POSSIBLE FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS. EACH TIME AFTER I WOULD RESTART THE VEHICLE THE SPEEDOMETER WOULD DROP SLIGHTLY (ABOUT 5 - 10 MPH AT A TIME) TILL IT REACHED 36MPH, THEN IT WOULD NOT DROP ANY LOWER. SPEEDOMETER REMAINED STUCK ON 36 MPH FOR 2 DAYS. I EVENTUALLY DISCONNECTED THE VEHICLES BATTERY FOR APPROX. 30 MINUTES. AFTER RECONNECTING BATTERY SPEEDOMETER APPEARED TO CORRECT ITSELF. DURING THE NEXT MONTH I HAVE HAD NUMEROUS, SPORADIC INCIDENTS WHERE THE SPEEDOMETER WILL FREEZE UP WHILE DRIVING. THIS IS A VERY UNSAFE AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. ALSO THE LIGHT DIRECTLY BEHIND THE SPEEDOMETER HAS BURNT OUT, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS OTHER GAUGE, SWITCH, AND INDICATOR LIGHTS. *TR
Source
- Source
- NHTSA ODI Complaints — Owner complaint filed with a government agency
- Reporter type
- Owner
- Source reference
- 10346012
- Country / market
- US
- Language
- en
- Document version
- Version 1 (1 held)
- Note on the source
- US federal government dataset. Complaints are unverified consumer reports, not confirmed defects.
Dates
- Incident date
- 2010-07-09
- Received by source
- 2010-07-28
- Added to the source's file
- Unknown: not returned by the source API
- Issued / published
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- First observed
- 2026-10-05 03:45 UTC (initial bulk load)
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